Junie Désil is my partner and my best friend. She has committed herself to three values that shape her life and work: fairness, kindness, and thoroughness. From the time she was a child, she would […]
My husband, Bill Koch, grew up in rural Montana. As a child, he was preoccupied with books and ball sports. He dreamed of a career in writing and edited his high school newspaper. However, working […]
I first met Léa Taranto at UBC in 2014 when we took an undergraduate workshop together in fiction. We bonded immediately over our shared Sino-diaspora heritage and love of speculative fiction. Since then, over the […]
I met Tom Wayman in the early 1980s when he was teaching English and writing at David Thompson University Centre in Nelson. DTUC (1979-84), a joint venture between UVic and Selkirk College, was the provincial […]
One of my earliest recollections of Ruby Smith Díaz is of chatting on Commercial Drive over a decade ago and noticing her latest art piece rolled up and sticking, too long, out of the basket […]
Having known Jen Currin for more than 10 years, most of that time as their partner, I see every day that writing, being a writer, is just an essential part of Jen as a person. Not […]
Niloufar-Lily Soltani is a writer, literature lover, fitness enthusiast, and supply chain expert living in Vancouver. I first met Lily over 20 years ago when a mutual friend invited me to meet “one of the […]
For the past 30 years, Leslie Hurtig has occupied various positions within the Canadian literary landscape. She has served as a sales representative, publicist, rights manager, and book buyer for some of North America’s leading […]
The Vancouver’s Writers Festival returns from October 16th to 22nd at Granville Island and other venues. Featured authors include Zadie Smith, Naomi Klein, Cherie Dimaline, Michael Crummy, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Patrick De Witt, John Valliant, and […]
In Vancouver there is a bookstore to suit every bibliophile, whether you prefer treasure-hunting through a stack of titles, picking up a copy of an old favourite, or getting a recommendation from a trusted staff […]
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